Metal Fracture Modeling
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2019) | Viewed by 8210
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nonlinear computational mechanics; large deformations in elastoplasticity; finite element architecture; nonlinear contact mechanics; damage and fracture modeling; modelling of material forming; metal forming; glass forming
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Dear Colleagues,
I would like to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue on “Metal Fracture Modeling” that will address multiple associated aspects, ranging from constitutive model proposals to numerical solution strategies.
The increased interest in the understanding of ductile fractures is partly prompted by the fact that the conventional damage models and fracture criteria in many situations fail to accurately predict ductile failure, especially for complex loading paths and for new advanced materials. There is the space, but especially the need, for new ideas and proposals to tackle these limitations and to face the associated computational challenges of ductile damage modelling, at both the micro and the macro scales.
A diverse variety of topics could be addressed, comprising:
- theoretical and numerical aspects related to advanced fully-coupled constitutive equations, including time and space discretization, complex loading conditions involving large plastic straining, non-proportional loading and strain rate effects, shear-loading effects;
- new mathematical formulations and numerical solution strategies for continuous/discontinuous transitions, size effects, mesh dependence, solution schemes involving non-local methods, phase–field models, XFEM and GFEM approaches;
- multiscale strategies for modelling ductile fracture, scale-bridging, model order reduction techniques,
and various related topics.
I hope you will contribute to this Special Issue on “Metal Fracture Modeling”.
Prof. Jose Cesar De Sa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Ductile damage and fracture
- phenomenological and micromechanics models
- numerical modelling
- multiscale modelling, continuous/discontinuous transition, non-local and phase field regularizations
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